What a Weird Week, a show about Weird News! Fri Apr 17, 2026: There's a Fish at the Door

About this episode

Scott discusses ten bizarre stories from the week, including a fish doorbell and unusual Guinness records.

Hi friends, I'm Scott and this is What a Weird Week, a show about weird news and interesting stuff that happened this week. We've got ten stories in 15 minutes. See bottom of shownotes page for a transcript of the podcast episode. To Subscribe/ get in touch/ other/ see www.shownotes.page . Thanks for rating and reviewing along with subscribing ! These are the shownotes for Season 7, Ep 15 first published April 10, 2026. 10 Fish Doorbell back in the news (https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/eel-world-problems-dutch-webcam-100640807.html) 9 Sauna Session Science: seems like it's good. (https://studyfinds.com/sauna-immune-system/) 8 Tarantulas have a good memory?! (https://studyfinds.com/blind-cave-tarantula-always-finds-way-home/) 7 Meredith Smith broke a Guinness Record running a half marathon in 55 T-shirts. (https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2026/04/09/Guinness-World-Records-T-shirts-worn-during-half-marathon/2391775743542/) 6 Largest gathering of people dressed as dinosaurs is now 682. (https://www.ucalgary.ca/news/celebrating-60-years-ucalgary-smiles-and-dinosaurs-community-day) 5 Rare images of Fire Worms…

People in this episode

Host: Scott

Topics covered

• weird news
• unusual records
• animal behavior
• health and wellness
• cultural events
• science

Keywords

• weird news
• fish doorbell
• Guinness record
• sauna science
• tarantula memory
• dinosaur gathering
• fire worms
• paid time off for pets

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Guinness World Records, Yahoo, Study Finds, UPI, University of Calgary, ABC7, Tech Fixated

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